Improvement in bird-cage swings



-:. f. SIDDALL.

BIRD-CAGE SWING.

Nd. 173,506. Patented Feb.15,1 876.

nmfl'm 4 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOEL It. SIDDALL, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES C.

GILL, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BlRD-CAGE SWINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,506, dated February 15, 1876; application tiled January 17, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOEL R. SIDDALL, of Trenton, Mercer county, New Jersey, have invented an Improved Swing for Bird-Gages, of which the following is aspecification My invention consists of a swing for bird- .cages, constructed as fully described hereinstead of being suspended, as usual, to an un yielding yoke or hail of wire, is connected to the hook or other. support 0 at the top of the cage by an elastic wire bail, B, bent to form two springs, a a, or through any other elastic medium. For instance, ,r'ubber springs a. a, Fig. 3, may replace the springs of wire; or

a rubber or other spring, 'a, may be introduced between the loop and the hook O, by which it is suspended, the object being to obtain a yielding support for the swingbar A.

When the bar is thus suspended the sudden jerks which ensue as the ordinary swing reaches the limit of its vibrations (sometimes throwing the bird from the bar) are avoided, and a yielding rest provided for the bird.

I claim 1. As a new article of manufacture, a birdswing consisting of the transverse bar A and an elastic suspending wire or bail, constructed to be suspended from a-sin gle point.

2. The swing-bar A, connected to the top of the cage by an elastic support, as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOEL It. SIDDALL.

Witnesses v CHARLES E. FOSTER, COURTNEY A. GooPEn. 

